- Since I’m well into the book, When Magoo Flew by Adam Abraham I thought it an appropriate time to take a look at this comic book I have. From 1953, it’s a Gerald McBoing Boing / Mr. Magoo mash up, a Dell comic book. The artwork is wildly off model from the animated cartoons and is wild enough to look like a Jim Tyer impersonator trying to do 20th Century graphics, just the way UPA would do them.

I don’t know who the artists were, and wonder if anyone out there has a clue. Please to leave a comment if you can figure it out. Here are two of the three stories in the magazine – one McBoing Boing and one Magoo.

Mike, I believe the artist is Dick Hall who goes back to the Fleischer and Ub Iwerks studios. He also drew the “Howdy Doody” and the “New Funnies” comicbooks of the 40′s and 50′s. I love his artwork, his poses just sing animation.

I was going to make a silly comment about how the color yellow must’ve been on sale that month but it is more interesting to me that there is a lot of use of white space. Sometimes the panels just have a splash of color.

The art is great though. Magoo has zip lines in most of panels. But, even when he doesn’t and is in motion, he’s drawn with decent poses.